100 Days of Lipstick Challenge

Hi BIC!

A lot of us have talked about our huge lipstick collections, and with the passing of another National Lipstick Day, I took stock of mine. I have about 200 lipsticks and glosses and realized, I only wear about 20 of them! So I'm challenging myself (and whoever else wants to join) to use more of them. I'm going to try to wear a different lipstick every day for the next 100 days.

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Thanks @naturalooks15! Now I need to see if Revlon still makes that shade (I remember that one), too. It’s been decades since I last wore Revlon lipsticks and I’m not sure why I stopped, since their bullets aren’t (or weren’t at the time) bad at all. My lipstick addiction began with Revlon back in the 80s. 🙂

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Pretty shade (first one) but who needs crumbly unless it’s dessert lol. Love 💕 the second shade combo on you. Gorgeous with the colour of your top @WinglessOne 👍. Wow I just counted my photos to get to 💯 lol. Your list is amazing.

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Thanks @2manyperfumes ! ☺️ I’ve been keeping that list since I started this challenge, to keep myself accountable. For the first 100 days, I tried to wear mostly lipsticks I already had, not new purchases, because I was in hardcore declutter mode. Without a list, that wouldn’t have happened. And I wound up wearing more than 100 lipsticks in the first 100 days because I was wear-testing so many oldies.

I still have a lot of lipsticks left to wear, and they’re not all recent purchases. I haven’t even worn all my L’Absolu Lacquers yet. 🤣 And I’ve barely touched my liquid mattes, now that I think about it. Oh boy.

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Thanks @divaknits! I’m glad you were able to get the gold shade. I think it’ll look amazing with your skin tone. And you know, you might end up getting another Lacquer shade in a certain box of goodies some lady in Chicago still hasn’t shipped yet because she keeps adding things. I need to quit and send it already, before I end up having to move everything to a bigger box that’ll raise your hubby’s eyebrows. 😂

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Whenever you send it is fine. I’ll be grateful. My hubby will live. I made a fairly substantial Sephora order, but I added something for him and for my daughter. I get what I wanted and they get stuff too. Nobody can get mad. Everybody wins! Just call me Oprah. You get a beauty product and you get a beauty product...

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I actually love how both of these look on you! You have a very impressive list of lipsticks! Can I please get your advice on the different Pat McGrath formulas? I would like to get my first one and am curious what you think! I actually bought a few Lancôme Lacquers based on a few of your reviews and LOVE them!!!

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Thanks @MamaMer ! I’m glad you love the Lacquers! Which shades did you get?

About Pat McGrath lipsticks: when it comes to true shade colors, don’t trust the product photos at PMG direct or Sephora. Look for people’s swatches or, better yet, swatch some testers in person if you’ve got a local store that carries PMG.

LuxeTrance - My favorite PMG lipstick formula. Creamy, comfy, great pigmentation, and long lasting. These are rockstars. Of the shades I own, my favorite is still the warm tomatoey McGrath Muse, followed closely by Wrecked. I hope the LuxeTrance line is permanent and the shade range continues to be expanded. If Pat released a blue, teal, dark green, or black LuxeTrance, I’d buy it (or all of those shades, really) without hesitation.

MatteTrance - Also highly pigmented and long lasting, with a velvet matte finish that doesn’t turn my lips into desert sand. No gritty crumblies as the color wears down throughout the day. My favorite shade is the one I recommend to everyone: Elson, a truly universal red that looks fantastic on everyone. That shade’s in one of the 2 sets of MatteTrance minis, which are a good way to try this line.

BlitzTrance - If you’re a sparkly shimmer fan, you need these in your life. They’re basically LuxeTrances with glitter. I haven’t worn any of mine in this thread yet for some reason; this is me reminding myself to do that. The new red shade, Blood Rush, is GORGEOUS and it took a serious amount of willpower to not buy it for myself during my last Sephora store visit. (I bought Flesh 3 instead.)

Lip Fetish - Some folks don’t like these balms, but I love ‘em. They’re some of the most pigmented balms I’ve ever worn. They’re not Luxe/Matte/BlitzTrance pigmented—I mean, they’re balms after all—and I think some people have the wrong expectations. These are supremely comfy on the lips. I never have to wear lip balm under these and they never dry my lips out. They wear down easily, but show me a tinted balm that doesn’t. I wish these came in mini sizes so I could always keep a couple in my purse/bag.

Lust Gloss -I like these, but they’re honestly not my favorite glosses to wear alone. I like to wear these over a full base coat of lip pencil to boost and even out their color. (When I do that, I also lay down a perimeter barrier of lip primer for bleed/feather insurance.) When these glosses are worn alone, I find the color tends to pool into my lip lines, creating a striped effect. I have to rub my lips together every so often to redistribute the color. On a more positive note, these glosses are just slightly tacky/sticky, so your lips won’t feel glued together all day.

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@WinglessOne Both of these look great on you, but I love the Colourpop Brick with the Lancome topper!! So pretty and one I'll have to try. I've never tried Colourpop, so thanks for sharing!! Love it!!😊

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Thanks @yankeefaithful ! I highly recommend the ColourPop Lux bullets. They’re a steal at $7 USD (even less if you catch one of CP’s sales, though they do have a free shipping minimum); I’d happily pay triple that price for one of these. And they come in a fantastic range of colors.